1.the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke;
fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries
2.resembling flame in brilliance or color;
maple trees ablaze in autumn
3.lighted up by or as by fire or flame;
forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning
4.(used of persons) informal intensifiers;
what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
5.very intense;
a fiery temper